Naples Real Estate

Open Houses. Every Sunday you will see hundreds of homes from Olde Naples, Park Shore, and Pelican Bay to Grey Oaks, Olde Cypress, and Quail West, having open houses in hopes of selling these properties. There are two main reasons for having them: sellers insisting that their realtor hold them because they believe it gives them the best opportunity for a sale and, realtors having them in order to find potential buyers for any property, not necessarily the one they are showing. The truth of the matter is that only 2% of homes sold are done through open houses. Most of the people attending these events are either nosy neighbors or someone who uses the time as a type of entertainment. The much more modern way to attract buyers for your home is through an active internet presence, where roughly 75% of homebuyers go for their initial search, and dedicated professionals like Chris and Dick can provide that service

North Naples and Collier County now has a new way to navigate. A new stretch of Logan Blvd. has now been opened. The two mile ride between Immokalee Road and Vanderbilt Beach Road opened on October 2, 2007, and has been a success ever since. This new stretch of Logan has offered travel opportunties for residents of such communities as Heritage Greens, Saturnia Lakes, Olde Cypress, Pebblebrook Lakes, The Quarry, and Golden Gate Estates.

Tourism for Naples, Collier County, and Southwest Florida continues to grow. In numbers released by the Naples, Marco Island, Everglades Convention and Visitors Bureau, the number of visitors to the area in August rose by over 8% from the previous year, and their direct spending increased close to 15%. A good portion of the increases has been attributed to in-state travelers taking advantage of the new state law prohibiting school starts prior to two weeks before Labor Day.

On October 1, 2007 the last commercial flight offered by Delta Airlines left Naples Municipal Airport. However this does not mean that Naples will be left stranded. A new airline has stepped up to fill the void. A family- owned airlines, Vintage, will be starting service sometime before the first of the year. While everything has not been completely worked out, the plan is for Vintage to offer nine weekly roundtrips from Naples to Tampa, Tallahassee, and the Florida Keys. Vintage has been operating successfully on Florida’s east coast for 16 years.